Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

One’s real life is so often the life that one does not lead.

Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.

When you stop caring what people think, you lose your capacity for connection. When you’re defined by it, you lose our capacity for vulnerability.

If you try to fight the course, it will beat you.

Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.

I heard that when Christina Aguilera went back to her prom, people, like, booed her. I can’t imagine going through that. If you know that’s going to happen, why put yourself in that situation? I’d rather play for 20,000 screaming people, you know?

By indignities men come to dignities.

All wrong-doing arises because of mind. If mind is transformed can wrong-doing remain?

My life has been very full.

I found it hard to be young. When I was married in my twenties, I hated being regarded as ‚the little wife.‘ You don’t know what it was like then! I’d never even written a cheque. I had to ask my husband for money for groceries.

I’ve reached the point where I hardly care whether I live or die. The world will keep on turning without me, and I can’t do anything to change events anyway.

When you love and accept yourself, when you know who really cares about you, and when you learn from your mistakes, then you stop caring about what people who don’t know you think.

My faith helps me overcome such negative emotions and find my equilibrium.

Commit yourself to a mighty purpose.

Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.

I think life is a matter of choices and that wherever we are, good or bad, is because of choices we make.

The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way.

I don’t think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.

History will point out some of the things I did wrong and some of the things I did right.

Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Perfectionism is not the same thing as striving to be our best. Perfectionism is not about healthy achievement and growth; it’s a shield.

No one has the right to be sorry for himself for a misfortune that strikes everyone.

Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.

Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.

When I was growing up, there was nobody in my family – not even my mother – who I could look to and be like, ‚I know you’ve never said anything homophobic.‘ So, you know, you worry about people in the business who you’ve heard talk that way. Some of my heroes coming up talk recklessly like that.

We are each made for goodness, love and compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world is when we live with these truths.

All you need to do to be my friend is like me.

If some years were added to my life, I would give fifty to the study of the Yi, and then I might come to be without great faults.

I want to solidify as an artist and show that as I grow as a person and make mistakes and learn from them, I’m going to grow artistically.

But sports carried me away from being in a gang, or being associated with drugs. Sports was my way out.

I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.

He who praises everybody, praises nobody.

I am an ordinary man who worked hard to develop the talent I was given. I believed in myself, and I believe in the goodness of others.

Running taught me valuable lessons. In cross-country competition, training counted more than intrinsic ability, and I could compensate for a lack of natural aptitude with diligence and discipline. I applied this in everything I did.

When we look back on all the perils through which we have passed and at the mighty foes that we have laid low and all the dark and deadly designs that we have frustrated, why should we fear for our future? We have come safely through the worst.

When you get to a place where you understand that love and belonging, your worthiness, is a birthright and not something you have to earn, anything is possible.

No one has done a study on this, as far as I can tell, but I think Facebook might be the first place where a large number of people have come out. We didn’t create that – society was generally ready for that. I think this is just part of the general trend that we talked about, about society being more open, and I think that’s good.

Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.

Any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still knows where his towel is is clearly a man to be reckoned with.

I am an over-achiever, and I want to be known for the good things in my life.

Why don’t you start believing that no matter what you have or haven’t done, that your best days are still out in front of you.

Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands.

I no have education. I have inspiration. If I was educated, I would be a damn fool.

I love getting out of my comfort zone.

If every day you practice walking and sitting meditation and generate the energy of mindfulness and concentration and peace, you are a cell in the body of the new Buddha. This is not a dream but is possible today and tomorrow.

Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me.

I’m inconsistent, even to myself.

My gold, my money couldn’t stop cancer from appearing on my body. If they can’t save me, then I don’t need them.

Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.

No one should be ashamed to admit he is wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.

Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.

What it’s like to be me? You know, it’s good to be me. My life is good.

Don’t be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

To me, my house is always recreating what I lost in youth.

Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.

There are many things that happen every day that we could murmur about if we let ourselves go there. But they really aren’t worth the effort it takes to get upset and gripe about it.